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Around one in 20 children in England are out of school due to issues linked to the pandemic and lockdown, the Children’s Commissioner has suggested.

The use of unregulated accommodation for under 18s in care should be banned, the Children’s Commissioner’s Office has said following an investigation into vulnerable children

Headteachers and school governors have written a strongly worded letter to the prime minister “imploring” him to take personal charge of the crisis in Covid testing,

The first official figures for school attendance in England for the autumn term show 88% of pupils went back. This is a higher absence rate

Pupils at special schools in England have been “forgotten about” in the rush to restart full-time education, with 20,000 children with special needs unlikely to

Children in England are three months behind in their studies after lockdown, with boys and poor pupils worst hit, suggests a survey of teachers by

Secondary pupils will have to wear face coverings in school corridors in local lockdown areas of England, after the government reversed its guidance. Head teachers

A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, after a government U-turn. It follows

A Panorama investigation to be broadcast on 17 August will report the findings of the first in-depth research project about the effect of confinement on domestic abuse.